This will tickle some readers’ irony bone. Jonathan Stempel reports: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg says a lawsuit by a man who claims to own a huge chunk of the popular social networking website is seeking to uncover needless details about his private life. Zuckerberg is fighting a civil lawsuit filed by Paul Ceglia, an…
Category: Court
Lower Merion must pay $260k to student’s lawyer in webcam case
John P. Martin reports: A federal judge Monday ordered the Lower Merion School District to pay about $260,000 now – and potentially much more later – to the lawyer who brought the lawsuit over the district’s webcam monitoring. In a 14-page opinion, Senior U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois said Mark S. Haltzman deserved to…
Judge strikes down nonprofit’s bid to keep donors private
Ameet Sachdev reports: A Virginia advocacy group that has been active in judicial elections in other states has declared its interest in Illinois’ coming elections. But it has decided to remain silent in Illinois for now. The Center for Individual Freedom, a nonprofit group, stated its intentions to enter Illinois politics in a grandiose way…
Fourth Amendment Stunner: Judge Rules That Cell-Site Data Protected By Fourth Amendment Warrant Requirement
While some of us were dancing a little jig and yelping “whoop-de-doo!” over a magistrate judge’s decision in New York, Orin Kerr was less than thrilled: A few federal court opinions have been making a big public splash recently by taking surprising positions on how the Fourth Amendment applies to location surveillance. The latest…